my age of magic

Chapter 735 235. Horace's View
A group of spider warriors passed through the dense forest quietly, they looked very clumsy in the woods.Sometimes the gap between two trees is very narrow, and it is difficult for the strong spider warriors to pass through. According to the past practice, they will cut down one of the trees, and then step on the fallen tree, directly stepping over it .

But now, when these spider scouts walked through the forest, they began to become more cautious. When they encountered dense bushes or dense trees in front of them, they also learned to detour and save energy as much as possible to finish the journey.

I can clearly feel that these spiderman scouts are to save their energy.

I guess maybe they have some problems with the logistical support. After all, these spider warriors are very picky about what they eat. Without the supply provided by giant spiders behind them, they would rather be hungry. Maybe they are already starving now.

The spider scouts gradually increased from a team of five at the beginning to a team of 15, and later to a team of 20. These experiences and lessons were bought with their blood, and the spiders had already paid a heavy price.

Those Nibru spiders, after losing nearly [-] spider warriors and a spider warlord, finally understood how to walk carefully in the jungle and how to avoid predators in the dangerous black forest. How can they keep themselves from being exposed to the sight of the predators, they are beginning to become obedient.

When the predator becomes the prey, this switch between roles is obviously not acceptable to the Nebulu spider people.

After two days of silence, the spider scouts began to patrol the forest around the Trum stronghold again. This time, the number of patrols had increased to twenty spider scouts, but there were still some spider scouts in the team for no reason. Because I got the help of the ancient war tree at this moment, I completely found the initiative to fight in the forest, I can know the movement of the spider people very accurately, and the big trees in the forest have begun to open the door for us .

When we need to hide from the spider man's search, those trees will grow thick branches and leaves to wrap us in it.

When we want to take a shortcut to chase those spiders, those trees will provide us with the shortest shortcut.

The ancient war tree will inform the nearest spiderman team about the specific situation through other giant trees.

Every big tree in the forest is our sentinel.

The home field advantage brought by this geographical advantage is very huge.

……

The magic circle of 'hypnotism' emerged under my feet.

The moment the spell ended, it happened that the team of spidermen in front had all bypassed the huge silver fir that was 60 meters high.

The last remaining Spider-man scout, he stumbled over a tree root protruding from the ground for no reason, and the pressure brought by his heavy body almost broke his leg, he seemed a little annoyed, and paused With a heavy and bloated body, he lowered his head and glanced at a raised tree root. He raised the Moonblade Ax in his hand, intending to cut off the tree root with one axe.

At this time, the voice of the leader of the spider scouts in front of the team had already been called, because his body was blocked by a huge silver fir tree, he quickly gave up the revenge action, put away the sharp ax in his hand, and hurriedly followed .

I just seized this small opportunity and threw the magic skill of 'hypnotism' on his head. His expression was a little trance, his steps were a little vain, and he just took two steps forward, leaning against the giant cedar The tree fell asleep.

A few thick vines quickly hung down from the tree, quickly wrapped around the spider scout's body, and then hoisted him up silently.

In just a dozen seconds, the spiderman scout seemed to disappear out of thin air in place.

Immediately, the spiderman scouts came back the same way, and they were very sensitive to find that their companions hadn't followed. Unfortunately, they didn't think about looking up, otherwise they would definitely find the sleeping one Spider Scout.

Those spider scouts began to get nervous. To them, the disappearance of this spider scout for no reason was like a nightmare, casting a shadow over every spider scout in the team. A sense of fear of death.

Afterwards, the scout team did not stay in this area for a long time, nor did they search carefully, but chose to leave quickly.

I hid behind an oak tree and put my ears on the trunk of the oak tree, and I could hear the voice from the ancient war tree. It told me through the oak tree friend that the team of spider scouts was gradually going away.

At this time, the dense branches and leaves surrounding my body slowly unfolded, revealing my body. When those spider scouts were looking for their companions, they were actually only three meters away from me, but they did not notice I.

This should be regarded as a kind of inertial thinking. Enemies will be hidden in those dense branches and leaves. There must be branches and leaves that have been touched in a mess, or there are traces of being broken, or leaves that have been turned up, etc., but these traces No, they didn't even try to poke twice with the spears in their hands before deciding that there was no one in the bushes.

Not long after, Kalancuo and Takama emerged from the bushes. Behind them was the blood-stained tauren Luka. He was casually holding a black magic crystal, and wrapped it with a piece of linen cloth. Wipe off the blood and stains on it, then put the Black Magic Crystal in the purse-like leather pocket on his waist, and gently tighten the drawstring.

A headless spider warrior was sleeping peacefully in the bushes, its dark red blood clotted.

His body seemed to have been soaked in blood, covered with sticky blood. The spider warrior's head was like a rotten watermelon, which was split open by the tauren Luka with a moon blade ax in the bushes. , and the black magic crystal inside has been taken out.

There was only one cold corpse curled up together, it looked like a blood-stained black rock, a parasitic plant with light red rhizomes very quickly wrapped the spider warrior's corpse, with a A speed visible to the naked eye is growing rapidly, and the entire spider warrior is quickly covered by this plant. Unless someone pushes away those light red rhizomes and takes a closer look, it is difficult to find that under these plants is a spider. The corpse of a human scout.

The Ancient War Tree quietly told me: The scientific name of this parasitic plant is 'Ghoul Vine', which grows specially near some large corpses in the forest. It belongs to a very ancient species. They are between animals and plants. A kind of creature in between, but it is already very rare.

As the number of large wild animals in the forest is gradually decreasing, the dominant animals in the forest are small and flexible beasts. Obviously, such creatures need the corpses of large animals to parasitize, and their living environment is becoming more and more difficult. narrow.

I collected a few seeds of 'Ghoul Vine' from the vine, which is not yet fully mature. I think Moraya will like this thing very much. I don't know how she is doing in the wild swamp south of Strange Rock City. , she said she would write to me.

Under the cover of dense trees, the four of us followed the team of spider scouts.

We have been chasing this team of spider scouts in the Black Forest for most of the day. According to the usual practice, they still need to continue walking east for a while before they can turn back, but now it seems that because there are already three spiders in front and behind Human scouts disappeared under their noses.

This team of spiderman scouts was already thinking of retreating. They had no intention of patrolling, and only wanted to return to the spiderman camp quickly so that they would be safe.

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During the rainy season, everything seems to be soaked in water, and the city walls are covered with purple-brown moss, which is sticky and slippery to the touch.

The air smelled of damp and mildew, hot wind was blowing, the clothes were sweaty, sticking to the body was a little uncomfortable, the soldiers on the side were changing the tendons on the bed crossbow, this kind of tendon bow strings are always used in such a rainy season. It will absorb enough water in the humid air, and then it will rise like a dried sea cucumber. The original toughness and elasticity will all disappear, and it will become limp and powerless.

I finally had the opportunity to watch this kind of sharp weapon for defending the city up close. It was these bed crossbows on the top of the city that drove back the spider warriors who attacked the city again and again. The standard bed crossbows with bow strings look slightly different from those in El City. They look more delicate, and the gears on the cast iron winch are somewhat intricate. Only two soldiers are needed to turn the winch and pull the bow strings .

There are four wooden wheels under these bed crossbows, which shows that these bed crossbows still have certain mobility.

Knight Disraeli stood on the top of the city, leaning on the wall with both hands and looking out into the forest outside the stronghold. The situation was very clear. He turned his head and glanced at me behind him. This time the battle to defend the city.

Knight Disraeli looked into the distance, then lowered his voice and asked me, "Do you think we can hold this place?"

There was no one else around, I was wearing a leather armor, and I was standing behind him with a longbow on my back. The longbow was almost as long as my height, and the leather armor was two sizes bigger than me. I look a little funny.

I straightened the leather hood on my head and asked Knight Disraeli, "What do you think?"

Knight Disraeli was choked by my rhetorical question, he was speechless, paused, coughed lightly, and then made a decision, and said to me: "I decided to persuade Huo later. Lord Les, the city walls here can't stop those spidermen, when they are in the mountains, they look over the mountains as if walking on flat ground, this mountain city stronghold is no different from the flat ground to the spider people!"

I know these situations clearly. If it were not like this, how could the previous spider warlord steal those dragon eggs from the dragon nest on the top of Aconcagua mountain? The ability of spider people to climb mountains is far better than They were even stronger than they imagined. It seemed that Disraeli had recognized the true strength of those spidermen, and giving up the Trum stronghold was the best choice.

He is the kind of person who is vigorous and decisive. Once he thinks of it, he will do it.

He ran down the city wall in a few steps, and I followed the Disraeli knight, and just said lightly: "I will not accompany you, I wish you success."

After getting off the city wall, I slipped into a small alley, not following the Disraeli knight.

It has been two days since I came to Trume stronghold.

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(Two days ago, all the spider scouts in the forest retreated into the spider camp. Kalan and I mistakenly confirmed that the Disraeli knights were carrying more than 600 heavy armored infantry through the news of the ancient war tree. Soldiers of the Corps came out from the mountainous area east of the Trum stronghold.

Knight Disraeli was obviously very capable. He actually successfully retrieved the heavy armored infantry regiment, integrated them together, and led them out of the mountains. Their goal was to go straight to the Trume stronghold.

The Disraeli Knights are Earl Horace's personal guards, and their most important task is to protect the safety of Earl Horace.

So, I discussed with everyone, and left Kalan Cuo and the tauren Luka with the orc warriors to support outside the stronghold. Qige and I directly led the soldiers of the heavy armored infantry regiment in the valley to join the Disraeli knights. Together, Qige, Katerina and I hid our identities in the team, put on archer leather armor, and pretended to be growing archers to mix in the team.

Since the spidermen in the forest have been shrunk in the spiderman camp by me recently, they dare not run out easily, so the nearly 700 heavy armored infantry soldiers of the Disraeli Knights took advantage of At night, dozens of ladders were used to successfully climb to the head of the Trum stronghold. This is the largest batch of reinforcements that the Trum stronghold has received in recent times.

With the support of the Disraeli Knights, the number of Earl Horace's personal guards has expanded to 1000 to [-] people. Earl Horace's reputation in the Trume stronghold was also unparalleled for a while. At the reception last night, unexpectedly Public commitment: Swear to live and die with Trump!
I think: This is a piece of bullshit! )

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In the past few days, the spider warriors in the surrounding area have begun to gather towards the spider camp in front of the Trum stronghold. It seems that these spidermen have lost their patience for hunting, and they want to swallow the Trum stronghold as soon as possible. They don't want to give up this piece of fat around their mouths, but the situation in the Black Forest is a bit confusing now, and many spidermen are starting to feel uneasy.

In order to allow the spider warriors to regain their confidence, the upper leaders of the spider camp finally made up their minds and prepared to launch a siege operation.

Thousands of spider warriors emerged from the spider forest, forming a large black mass, and gathered on the battlefield outside the Trum stronghold. There was a spider warlord every [-] meters.

There are nearly [-] spidermen in the team, and there are four spider warlords in total.

If it wasn't for the fact that the spiders were worried about casualties before, I think they could break through the city in a quarter of an hour, rush into the stronghold in one breath, and start a massacre.

Maybe before that, the spiders just wanted to surround the Tulum stronghold, they laid layers of traps, and waited for the reinforcements from the surrounding Green Empire to enter the ambush circle.

We have taken the initiative in the forest, forcing the spider people to choose to attack the Trum stronghold as soon as possible. In this forest area, the spider people have begun to be a little exhausted, and the recent reduction in staff is a bit too large.

Horace's inspiring words last night, after all, played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army. Now almost all the people in the Trume stronghold are very optimistic that the Trume stronghold can hold on for at least another month... …

I don't think those spider people can wait that long.

(End of this chapter)